Interview - Providing key insights into current affairs, President Isaias Afwerki sat down with national media outlets on ...

Isaias decided to leave the ELF, leading his group into an alliance with other breakaway factions. An Eritrean tank destroyed in a battle with Ethiopian troops, near Barentu, Eritrea, May 20, 2000.

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki warned neighbor Ethiopia against launching a new war between the bitter foes, with tensions ...

Isaias Afwerki was the architect of the highly secretive and centralized rebel group called the Eritrean People Liberation Front (EPLF). This rebel group was able to defeat a Western and Soviet ...

Analysis - Isaias Afwerki once was hailed as Eritrea's independence hero. But over the past three decades, his policies have pushed the country into isolation, leading to two-thirds of the country ...

Eritrean secretary general of the provisional government, Isaias Afwerki votes in a three-day referendum to make Eritrea independent from Ethiopia after a 30 year old civil war on April 23, 1993.

The leader, Isaias Afwerki, secretary general of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, gave no date for the proposed referendum. By Craig R. Whitney Page 3 of 3 ...

Isaias Afwerki. Photo: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters. H ard to believe one can fight against authoritarian occupation (by Ethiopia) for decades and then turn into a dictator oneself in a matter ...

The current unelected president of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, has been in power since 1991. The diabolical dictator has outmaneuvered and outlived his political adversaries in the Horn of Africa for ...

Longtime enemies Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea officially declared an end to the one of Africa's longest and bloodiest border disputes Monday, the latest breakthrough in the whirlwind first ...

A revered hero of Eritrea’s independence struggle, Isaias Afwerki has ruled with an iron fist for three decades, crushing all opposition and transforming his country into an African “North Korea ...

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